LILY

 A few weeks ago (well it may be a bit more than that) I bought a small Lily in a pot and left it in the back porch.  Last night I was surprised to see that it is in flower, in spite of the weather, so brought it indoors today.

I had thought it was just a plain colour but it is gorgeous.

PAINTING

Doug has not been doing as much painting lately as we seem to be constantly busy but, hopefully, he will get back to it this week.

This is his latest painting roughly based on a photo he took at Gibbs Farm a few years ago.

We were lucky with our walk this morning.  Just along the shared pathway but the rain kept away and several of us went on a second walk to check it out for next week.  It is in a new subdivision.  Hopefully some photos next week if I remember.

Once we got home the heavens opened again. 

SHORTEST DAY

It is good to have the shortest day out of the way.  I know we have the majority of winter still to come but at least it will start to get lighter in the mornings.  

We seem to have been particularly busy lately with something on every day of the week. Last Friday I had to have YAG laser treatment on my right eye as my vision had become blurred.  I had the left one done last August.  Unfortunately, the night before my cellphone had given up the ghost so it was in to town to buy a new phone which took an hour then it took another hour to transfer everything from the old phone to the new so we went to have my eye done and then went back to collect it.  Of course, it took me most of the rest of the day to sort the phone out with various passwords needing to be added.

Generally things have been going well though.  Last Monday our Parkinson walk was from A.H. Reed Park to the Whangarei Falls.  The path was a bit muddy in places as we have had a lot of rain but everyone enjoyed the walk.

These, growing on a tree near the falls, looked like tiny mushrooms

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Looking back up the river from the Falls

The Mexican Marigold that we purchased a couple of years ago provides some much needed colour in our winter garden.  It grows easily from cuttings so we have it all over the place.